Can the CSA leave father destitute ? ? ?

kelloggs36

The law is in relation to how they calculate maintenance and how much they collect in this regard. Arrears are separate and are not therefore subject to the same tests.

73bugz

Blob, good post and i totally agree with you.

Cozworth806

Blob wrote: »

One point that you might like to consider, is that the CSA actually took me below what I would have got on basic benifits. I had rent to pay as well as getting to work and food for myself and the kids when they were with me.

Oh yes.

Child Support Law states that they should leave you with £30 a week more than you would get on benifit! Nice if they actually started to live by their own law, this would I am sure remove many of the problems that people that are trying to put their lives back togeather have. On both sides of the fence that is.

The £30pw amount relates to old legislation cases, but yes there are people on the new rules with rent payable that will likely be left with less than the old notional protected income.

Blob

Kelloggs.
However you add it you have to be left with more than you would get on benifit, or there is no point in working. Beside which the law said so.

kelloggs36

As I said, the law was written so that the regular maintenance calculation must leave you with more than you would get on benefits. Otherwise, there would be no way that they could take money from benefits which they are allowed by law to do eg by setting a minimum payment!!!

Blob

OK So just why is that they left me with less than I would have got on basic benifits £52 a week and I was earning up to £500 a week at the time! Work no point if you ask me!

Loopy_Girl

Because you had arrears. You are not listening to what Kelloggs is saying. You were paying more as you were paying normal maintenance and arrears.

If you were paying just normal maintenance then you would have had more than the bEneEfit rates.

Blob

Just a point here, my arrears payment were nothing to do with that. In the investigation that was carried out by ICE they hung the CSA out to dry on this point.

The Law is the Law and they can't make it up as they go along no matter how hard they might like to.

You cannot be taken below the benifit level. You have to be left with more than you would get on benifit no matter what.

Just so that it might get through this came from the Minister as well. So the idiot that took me below that level had to answer, and as far as I know they no longer work for that dept! Even a DEO has a limit on how much they can take, and that is 40%. Again in the ICE report they were taking 67% of my income sometimes more, and you wounder why people fight them!:rolleyes::mad:

Loopy_Girl

Blob wrote: »

You cannot be taken below the benifit level. You have to be left with more than you would get on benifit no matter what.

So why do NRP's that are on benefit have an amount of £5 or £7 deducted from their benefit to pay their CSA contribution?

All legal and above board:rolleyes:

Blob

That is very easy, as you say they are on benifit. If someone is working then you can't take them below that level. Its not difficult really.